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Gray Wolf Skull
Research and Collections
Noggins for Noshing?
Animal diets, skull shapes and the limits of convergent evolution
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Ceramic Hairless Dog
Colima Dogs
Best Friends Forever
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Margo Albert Red and Greed Dress
Margo’s Dresses of Resiliency
Originally costumes for the stage, these dresses cared for by the Museum are now artifacts that demonstrate the resilience against conspiracy amid country-wide hysteria.
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Gems of the Americas
Gems of the Americas
Take a trip through deep time — via the 1980s — and explore gems with a vintage NHM documentary
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Bactrian camels at the Griffith Park Zoo, circa 1910-1916.
Topsy the Camel
A camel that captured hearts and headlines rediscovered in NHM's Mammalogy Collections
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E. Occidentalis
Horsing Around at La Brea Tar Pits
Say giddy up to the Western horse
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nhm in olympic regalia
Performance Anxiety: Olympics in Hard Times
The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics under the shadow of the Great Depression
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Great Shark Hunt hike in
The Great Shark Hunt
A community effort to uncover ancient L.A.
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Up-close view of Megamouth
A Fishy Query
Why does this supersized shark’s mouth glow in the dark?
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Photograph of the Dino Hall exhibit
Virtual Tour of Dino Hall - ASL
A virtual visit to the Age of Dinosaurs
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